Hey all

just wondering how much rope do people use to set up a drift anchor, my boat is 5.25m fibreglass cheers

Hi folks, 

Last couple of trips out I've been having a few issues with my sounder. 

First up it wouldn't turn on when I got to the boat. I fiddled with the cables, unplugged them and plugged them in again, tapped it, slapped it and swore at it. After about 40 minutes I gave up and sure enough a couple of minutes later it turned on by itself and ran fine until I shut it off when the day was done.

This morning I went out to pull my pots and it started fine when I got onto the boat but after pulling the pots out the back of the bank it stopped and wouldnt go again. no amount of swearing and fiddling could change its mind this time. 

It looks to me as if the back of the yellow plug (structure scan?) is badly perished but all other plugs look fine. Could this perished plug affect the units operation? or does anyone else have any other ideas what could be wrong? My thoughts would be to plug it into someone else's cabling and see if the unit runs fine therefore meaning I have an issue with my cables. trouble is I don't know anyone running a Lowrance.....

All constructive advice welcome :)

 Hi lads I went out today in the boat and after hitching the boat up and towing it home iv realized something wasn't right had a look at the trailer and the 3 cross bars have cracked( as in the photos below) is it just worth getting a new trailer as a few other things are buggered on it too or should I get it fixed the boat sitting on it is a quintrex 5.7 bow rider any suggestion would be appreciated new ,second hand ,good trailer brands ,fixing solutions etc cheers guys and more annoying is I had my jurien bay boat trip lined upfor the 4th of January

There has been a lot of people that have had there pots pulled and taken in the mandurah ate

Enjoy

 Heading down to Denmark tomorrow with a 6.8m boat and keen to know how the Wilson inlet has been fishing lately? Never been before but I hear there are decent kgw, bread and butter fish and the odd snapper cruising around. Does anyone know if it's worth taking the crab nets up this time of year? 

Hi Guys,

I'm heading over to Rotto in mid Jan and looking for some good cray spots.

Ill be Snuba diving from the shore and staying over at longreach side.

Are they any hotspots out there?

Hey guys me and the misso are heading to Esperance tomorrow in our 5.8m Haines. The area looks incredible with so much ground it’s overwhelming. Could anyone point us in the right direction for areas to jig/bait fish?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks guys!  

 Well we launched early this morning and wind was up a bit so stayed close and caught a few whiting and squid. 

We had enough around 10 and headed in. After pulling the boat out I was chatting to another fishermen who had caught a dhuie and was heading home today. He pointed me in the direction and I asked miss 9 what she thought we should do, her reply was to relaunch so we did.

We got to the spot 15 mins later and started drifting, 2 drifts in and Miss 9 comes up solid on a 56cm shy, her first. She handled it well with just a little help from dad. An hour later on our last drift I had a nice hit on the 5 inch abrohlos tackle paddle tail and landed a 65 ish dhuie too.

Time to head back to camp 

Thanks to the guys who gave advice e on my other thread.

Hi

Heading to Rotto for a few days and wondering where it would be best to drop a pot. Staying at Longreach. Just wondering if I still need to drop them in sand or rather very close to a bit of reef and what sort of depth

Cheers

Eric

 Hi guys, just wondering if anyone can offer some advise.

got two craypots for the first time and have been dropping them out ocean reef, using tuna heads, have large lead weight.

dropping them in around 9 - 11m of water but coming up with absolutely nothing.

i know like all fishing there is a nack to it and you learn as you go but any advice would be great what to try / not to try

Does anyone use a Lowrance HDS Gen 2 as a fuel gauge.

I have an HDS 8 Gen 2 and a Suzuki DF 250 which came with a Garmin multifunction device which worked great until recently. It now takes up to an hour or 2 to turn on which means it isn't calculating fuel used all the time, so I intend to start using the HDS as an engine multi function gauge. Wondering if anyone has done this and if so, what level of accuracy they have experienced after 2 or 3 calibrations

Cheers

Eric

Heading out tomorrow, does anyone have any reports of southern blues SOR, particularly out of rocko or woodies? Hoping to hear of anything between ffb and the 40s.

Cheers

 Has anyone else ever been bitten by a crayfish before? I have been rayfishing longer than I can remember diving and pots and when measuring a crayfish a couple of days ago had 1 latch onto my gloved finger, it had such a good bite could not pull or shake it off, dipped it into ice slurry and it let go.

I should listen to my own advice from safety days on hand safety when I used to say never put your finger where you wouldn,t put your d##k

 Hi All

Heading to Augusta today for 6 days. Taking my 4.2 Savage with me. Have checked the forecast and looks like we will get at least a couple of days of light winds.

Is there any reasonable demersal fishing within about 5 mm or so of the coast?

I'm guessing there is plenty of kgs and bread and butter fish in close?

Thanks in advance.

 2018 was a great year for me, here is a quick edit of a few of the highlights from the past year. Have a merry xmas and a safe and happy new year

 Had a big weekend on the water, great weather , just want to thank Whitfords Sea rescue for the tow yesterday from 30 km off 2 rocks , left the ramp before 4am heading out to the bank with my mate Eric, lots of excitement with awsome water and our first demersal bash for a couple of months , 30 km out and all of a sudden my engine just cut out , just had its 200 major service,well slightly stressed I called up Sea rescue and told them our problem, no worries they said we are on our way, looked at my mate and said we may as well drop the lines, barren ground on the sounder, nothing happened for about 10 minutes , all of a sudden my rod loaded up and I had a great battle with a nice 10 kg Dhu, well after that we had the best hour of fishing ever, got bricked by some monsters, bagged out on great baldies,just as we got our last fish our tow turned up,back at the ramp by 9.00am. Just shows how lmportant it is to log on and have all the safety gear , good radio very important, merry Xmas Sea rescue and fellow fishos .

1st time doing An actual fishing report

Ended up going out for a long day on the boat yesterday perfect conditions so wethought we would make our way over to the Fads didn't quite make it there but seen a few bird bust ups on the way so we quickly hooked up the lures and the bang we where on.

4 tuna later and tried for a bottom bash and came up with just an eel what a stupid thing they are.

Was a good day over all

 Just a heads up- Rockingham Rangers were "red hot" with Parking Infringement Fines today.

Not only on the so called grassed area's inside the Parking Area,but also out on Point Peron Road.

Heaps of cars with Infringements- Really not in the Xmas spirit!

Anyway,you have been warned,because they will surly be there again tomorrow!

Few around out back ATM . Had a ball using handlines. Good Xmas feed

G’day everyone,

Has anyone tried for crabs in the Mandurah estuary recently? Heard there are a few around but on the smaller side.

Going to have a go with nets on Sunday.  

Enjoy

Hey guys,

Gonna be heading down to Bridgetown this festive season for a few days, and wondering if anyone is down there now getting some lines wet who would know if any reddies or trout are on the bite? Looking to do fishing mostly around Pemberton at Big Brook Dam, Rooney's Bridge, and if i can get away from the missus for long enough, down Heart Break Trail. Also closer to Bridgetown I'll hit the Donnelly River aswell.

Got some HB minnows, Spinners and SP to try out, so hoping something will land on my plate for dinner!

Cheers for any help!

 Hi FW, can anyone point me in the right direction of fishing Canarvon river system? Will be travelling through there for a pit stop quite regularly. Not looking for secret spots just a general idea? Will have light spin and lures. Will be landbase just catch and releasing. Cheers

Hi . I have bought my neighbors boat which I used to go out fishing in . He is now fishing up above . The person who was looking after it has taken out the fish finder that was with it . Also he replaced the Lowrance elite 5 HDI with a Furuno fcv-582l . I have checked the internet but can find no details . The transducer cable is a Airmar C172 S2002 . I am probably correct in saying he has replaced the original cable that was connected up to the Lowrance . The plugs no doubt are different to my understanding . Picking up the original sounder on weekend should I also make sure I get the original cable as well . No Idea if the tranducer was swaped out as well hope not .
Any help on this would be great .
Cant wait to get back on the water .

Some large schools still around right up on the surface ......many are real horses ! 

Hi guys

looking for bulk jarrah wood for a offset smoker around the Mandurah area if possible

these things burn through a bit of fuel.

thanks

shane 

 FFS, every year these arseholes do this, raping the crab stocks.

https://www.coastlive.com.au/news/local-news/freeway-roadblock-uncovers-a-catch-of-115-undersize-crabs/?fbclid=IwAR1mcVSGGtVKbvEH5_7WN4AM5BdUFV3d1Xq-b4_5USJFTenJf_HUhkpMl3Y